Cardinal Burke: ‘Pro-Choice’ Pols Are Apostates

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Cardinal Burke

As America’s Democrat politicians act to expand the abortion industry, Cardinal Raymond Burke refuses to countenance their evil work–especially when it’s done by politicians who pass themselves off as Catholic (https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2021/04/cardinal-burke-says-pro-choice-politicians-are-apostates/).

These, he said on his website this week, are apostates–and should be denied communion.

Killing babies and selling their body parts is flagrantly against Biblical and Church teaching–so why does the Catholic Church in America, more often than not, allow politicians who “publicly and obstinately” support and promote abortion to receive communion?

The excuse offered by many churchmen is that they’re simply averse to “politicizing the Eucharist.” It’s hard to decide what to call this–arrant hypocrisy or just plain bunk. “Moral cowardice” might fit; and “corruption” also springs to mind.

The cardinal says his remarks were prompted by people constantly asking him why those politicians continue to receive communion despite their “refusal to live in accord to the fundamental truth of faith and morality.”

He is trying to provide guidance that certain priests and bishops have chosen not to provide.

We salute Cardinal Burke as a Christian hero standing against a widespread evil in an evil age.

Many of those pro-abortion politicians, in between trips to church, are also on the bandwagon for “transgender,” homosexuality, and other sins that have morphed into public policies and political movements.

It hardly needs to be said that many Protestant church leaders are just as guilty of the same.

Three Cheers for the Cardinal and the Priest!

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Cardinal Raymond Burke

I was about to write that I was just too tired to post any more news today, but then this came along.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, now a member of the Vatican’s highest court, has supported a South Carolina priest who refused communion to presidential wannabe Joe Biden because of Biden’s habitual support for abortion (http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3808397/posts).

“What the priest did in South Carolina was right and just–would that more priests would act in a similar manner,” the cardinal said. It is, he added, “a question of moral law.”

And the priest, Father Robert Morey, said, “Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”

Before they kicked him upstairs to the Vatican, Cardinal Burke made waves here at home by withholding the sacraments from abortion-funding politicians.

Imagine if he were pope!

It’s reviving and refreshing to know that there are still men and women in the Church, any church, who value obedience to God over getting along in a fallen, sinful world.

Cardinal Burke and Father Morey, you have heartened Christians of all denominations.

Persecuted Prophets

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I was distressed to learn from Phoebe this morning that Cardinal Raymond Burke, who was kicked upstairs to the Vatican some years ago after he refused to allow abortion-happy Democrat politicians to take communion in his church, was this year demoted about as far down the ladder as they could push him.

It shouldn’t surprise us. There’s no way a faithful servant of God can prosper under the Red Pope, Francis I. Cardinal Burke had several times publicly rebuked the pope for his habit of playing hooky from orthodox Catholic teaching–and from the Word of God itself, as given to us in the Bible. Burke has always stood tall for the Bible. Especially on issues of sexual morality, where the Red Pope is infamously wobbly.

The good news is that Cardinal Burke is down but not out. He refuses to keep silence, and European newspapers seek him out for views and comments. In other words, he’d better watch his topknot.

A similar fate overtook another hero of the church, Peter Akinola, former head of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria, former Archbishop of Abuja. For years, Archbishop Akinola fought for God’s law as more and more of the Anglican Communion plunged itself into rebellion against the Lord for the benefit of sodomy, preferring to seek the favor of this world. In 2009 Archbishop Akinola was one of a multitude of Christian leaders who signed the Manhattan Declaration–for obedience to God’s word, against obedience to the world’s drive for “inclusion” and “affirmation.” In 2010 he was “retired” from all his leadership positions within the church.

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Lest we Protestants sneer at Catholics and Anglicans for punishing their prophets for speaking truth instead of lies, we ought to inquire more closely into the workings of our own flatline denominations. Check out what our seminaries are getting up to: inventing new “theologies” by the day, and thumbing their noses at the Bible. Drop in on the next Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly–we never know what to expect from one of those.

When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith in the Earth?

Depends on where you look, O Lord. It depends on where you look.